> > > I guess one can be more easily reconfigured than the other, but is there
> > > another advantage?
> >
> > It's faster than using /tmp on disk.
> > It's safer than using /tmp on root partition.
>
> Is it faster even when it needs to write to swap?
Sorry, that doesn't really make much sense. I meant to ask why is it faster,
when it's still writing to the disk?
- Joel